My ‘mentor’ teacher told me to just keep him in the back of the class, where he would cause the least problems. He later told me that his IQ was tested at 135. I wonder today what he is doing...I sure wish he was put in another school.<<<
I have always suspected that some teachers do not want the extra smart students, for it shows the teachers up as not being all that smart.
I once went to a teacher parent meeting with 8 teachers at one time for a 15 year old 7th grader, who was not doing well in school.
Of the 8 teachers, only 2 realized that he could not read, about half allowed for his mis-treatment and lack of abilities/or/ knowledge of some basic subjects.
A couple went along the line of “so what let the little bastard get the failing grade he earned”.
That was in 1986 and not that long ago.
His craft teacher sent him home with extra projects, which he worked on, to gain both knowledge and extra credit and I won a bet that I could find books that interested him.
LOL, I read him early mining stories, while he worked on his crafts.
One of his teachers, was fantastic, she is the one that forced the meeting, LOL, I can almost say her name, so simple, and she was a Judges wife, but gone from my mind this morning.
I went back to class with her that morning, WOW!!!
She assigned the class work, got them to do their reading and we sat in the back of the class room and talked.
It was not really all the child’s fault, he was a textbook case of abuse, including being fed drugs at 3 years old, which put in the hospital in an ‘unknown’ coma for several days.
His mother gave him the dope, so he and his sisters would not bother her party.
If you miss your kids, get a foster license, they need foster parents every where.
I heard on the Vegas scanner this week end that the children’s shelters were full and would not take more kids.
I keep hearing of small children on the scanner, found and hours later no one looking for them, so they are put in the shelter.
Getting off my soapbox, for I do not understand some folks.